In 2005, 6.5 mio visitors came to Berlin. This means a total of 14.6 mio overnight stays in the 580 different lodging places. For the first time, the number of foreign guests equalled to almost two mio that spent more than five mio nights in Berlin. Thus, the total of 84.328 beds reached a capacity limit of 48.8 %.

The district Treptow-Köpenick, as intersection between this growing metropolis and the spacious Mark Brandenburg, also profits from the capital’s positive development tendencies. In 2006 a total of 213.050 guests decided to visit Berlin’s largest district which amounted to 451.863 overnight stays. The average stay took 2.13 days, the beds reached a capacity limit of 37 %. Thus, Treptow-Köpenick attracted 3.24 % of Berlin-visitors and the percentage of foreign guests with overnight stays was raised by 25 %.

In comparison to Berlin’s other districts, Treptow-Köpenick is only number 9 of 12 districts concerning overnight stays.  This result does not comply with the district’s potential by far. Treptow-Köpenick is supposed to again become one of the big touristic labels in the Berlin-Brandenburg area. In order to reach this ambitious intention, the “Tourismusverein” Berlin Treptow-Köpenick has started an annual EU-project in cooperation with the district authority Treptow-Köpenick in September 2006.

Within this plan, the analysis, plans, financing and transformation concepts will be developed which makes our destiny much easier to reach. Thereby, development of touristic focuses should be accelerated and ways should be smoothed for potential investments. Close cooperation of public and private economy is essential and is very much activated by this project.

The following assignments will be converted:

• Revision of responsibility assignment and role allocation concerning the promotion of tourism 
•  Development of a concept for an enduring financing of tourism development
• Intermediate-term planning of development and marketing focuses within the district
• Revision of the basis of tourism marketing
• Development of planning measures of touristic focuses
• Cooperation concept for Berlin and its districts

The European Union and Berlin co-finance this plan within the scope of the European Fond for regional development